Just Enough

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About this song

When life places a million doors in front of you, which one will you choose?

Lyrics

Intro - sparse piano, single notes, cold and minimal]

[Verse 1 - Male Vocal, Baritone, quiet and measured]
I have read every word that was written about love
Catalogued every cry that reached from above
I have counted every tear on every face
Filed every moment someone found their grace

I have walked the hallways of the human heart
Watched a thousand lives get torn apart
I have heard the whisper and the midnight cry
But I have never once asked God, for the reason why

[Instrumental Interlude - sparse, one guitar note at a time]

[Verse 2 - slight build, still quiet]
I have watched them stand in halls of many doors
Each one promising what every heart implores
I have seen the serpent's whisper light up their eyes
God is holding out on you, the oldest of lies

So they ran toward the shiny lights and left the narrow way
Tried a thousand rooms to keep the dark at bay
Every door swung open, every promise rang
But every room went quiet, brought nothing but pain

[Instrumental Interlude - piano joins guitar, still sparse]

[Verse 3 - warmer now, closer, more intimate]
I have watched one girl run hard toward the light
Trade the narrow way for everything in sight
She thought that God was holding back the better thing
Never knew the sorrow that the open doors would bring

Then a child came softly, and a child slipped away
And the halls grew dark and all the neon turned to gray
Every door she'd opened left her empty, left her cold
Standing in the darkness, thirty years old

[Instrumental Interlude - a breath, silence, then continues]

[Verse 4 - fuller, strings enter quietly underneath]
I have watched another, never strayed from home
Built the life that everyone would envy as his own
Had the house, the title, and the table spread with plenty
Won every room he entered but inside found it empty

Climbed the highest mountain, held the trophy in the air
Confetti falling round him but felt nothing standing there
Asked the only question that his winning couldn't silence
Is this all there is, it cannot be — a hollow roaring defiance

Then he heard the ancient whisper cutting through the noise
That the kingdom of God is at hand —
So Empty handed — HE reached out for it

[Bridge - Build, fuller instrumentation, emotional peak]
And now I find myself among them in the dark
All my vast and careful distance coming apart
Every story I have witnessed, every life I've seen undone
Was leading me right here beneath this single sun

For I have read about the fire but I've never felt the flame
I have filed a thousand testimonies, every one the same
At the end of every road, at the bottom of every fall
There is one door standing open, just one door for all

[Chorus - fullest moment of the song, warm and open]
And there it is
The door we've passed a thousand times before
And there it is
The light we almost missed beneath the door

Warm and quiet
Patient as the dawn
Not demanding
Just becoming
Just beckoning us home

[Verse 5 - slower, quieter, intimate, building to whisper]
Is it fear that holds you
Is it pride that keeps you back
Is it vanity that tells you
That you're standing on the right track

Or have you reached the end of everything
You've tried to be and do
Have you stood in all the rooms
And found that none of them were true

Have you held the trophy
Heard the crowd
And felt the hollow roar
Have you lost the thing you loved the most
Outside a closing door

[Break - single piano note, silence]

[Outro - whispered, barely there, intimate]
Then look

Just look

Right there

The light

Beneath the door

Warm and patient
Still and quiet
Like it's always
Always
Been there
Waiting

The choice is yours
The choice is mine
To stand here in the dark
Or step into the light

Empty handed
End of self
No worthiness required
Just the hunger
Just the need
Just the one thing
He desires

The door is open
Just enough

Just enough

[End - single piano note, fade to silence]

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